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TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS: A PROTOTYPE SYSTEM FOR CROATIAN LANGUAGE
Miran POBAR
; Odjel za informatiku Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Rijeka, Hrvatska
Sanda MARTINČIĆ-IPŠIĆ
; Odjel za informatiku Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Rijeka, Hrvatska
Ivo IPŠIĆ
; Tehnički fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Rijeka, Hrvatska
Sažetak
This paper presents the development of a Croatian text-to-speech system capable of synthesizing speech from arbitrary text. Input text in normalized form is first transcribed into a phonetic string (grapheme-to-phoneme conversion) and then processed by a TD-PSOLA based synthesizer. A procedure for automatic selection of diphones from a spoken corpus is proposed. A Croatian language diphone database was built for the system. Subjective quality evaluations of the resulting speech were performed, as well as tests for intelligibility.
Ključne riječi
diphone selection; Croatian diphone database; diphone concatenation; text-to-speech systems; speech quality evaluation
Hrčak ID:
30616
URI
Datum izdavanja:
19.12.2008.
Posjeta: 5.814 *